Draft Decision for the C.P.C. onInstructions Concerning Purveyance of Raw Materials[2]

Written:December 30, 1919Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIV.

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TheBoard of the S.E.C. to be directed, not later than

			      Saturday,[1]to revise the instructions in such a manner as to ensure that the decision
of the Seventh Congress of the Soviets will be fully carried out, in
particular.

1)onthe question of the right of

objection,[3].

2)thesurplus-appropriation principle to be more fully and strictly
applied;

3)rightsand conditions for the display of local initiative and its
stimulation to be worked out in detail;

4)methodsfor combating red tape to be worked out.

Thefull draft instructions mentioned in the decision of the Seventh
Congress of the Soviets to be presented within a

week.[4]

[1]January3, 1920.—Ed.

[2]Thedraft instructions were discussed and adopted by the C.P.C. the
same day they were written.

[3]Thisalludes to the decision of the Seventh All-Russia Congress of
Soviets on state organising activities, with special reference to the
commissariats’ right of objection to managers of Soviet Executive Committee
sections.

[4]Undera resolution of the Seventh All-Russia Congress of Soviets the
S.E.C. was to frame instructions defining the rights and duties of the
central and local bodies of the S.E.C. in respect of state factories of
special importance, trustified enterprises, etc.